UFC Fight Night 122 bonuses: Gastelum, Jingliang among $50,000 winners in China

SHANGHAI – Kelvin Gastelum, Li Jingliang, Zabit Magomedsharipov and Song Yadong each earned $50,000 bonuses for their performances at today’s UFC Fight Night 122 event.

All four fighters earned “Performance of the Night” honors. No “Fight of the Night” award was given out.

UFC officials announced the winners at the post-event news conference, which MMAjunkie attended.

Gastelum (14-3 MMA, 9-3 UFC) stopped former middleweight champion Michael Bisping (30-9 MMA, 20-9 UFC) with a knockout midway into the first round of the main event. Gastelum caught Bisping with a flush left hand and dropped him, and follow-up punches were merely elementary.

In the co-feature, China’s own Jingliang (14-4 MMA, 6-2 UFC) picked up another big welterweight win with a first-round TKO of Zak Ottow (15-5 MMA, 2-2 UFC). The win electrified the crowd and gave “The Leech” four straight wins, including back-to-back bonuses.

To close out the preliminary card, Magomedsharipov (14-1 MMA, 2-0 UFC) was dominant against former WSOF title challenger Sheymon Moraes (9-2 MMA, 0-1 UFC). And though it looked like Magomedsharipov would cruise to a unanimous decision win, he stayed after the finish and put Moraes away with an anaconda choke with 30 seconds left in their featherweight fight.

Song (13-4 MMA, 1-0 UFC) had a massive UFC debut in his welterweight fight against Bobby Nash (8-4 MMA, 0-3 UFC). Although he was more than a 2-1 underdog in the fight on the prelims, Song caught Nash with a big punch quickly into the first round and finished him off in just 15 seconds for one of the fastest finishes in UFC welterweight history.

UFC Fight Night 122 took place Saturday at Mercedes-Benz Arena in Shanghai. The entire card streamed on UFC Fight Pass.

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